Muskrat hook



Aug. 12, 1930. DAHATHQRN 1,772,512

MUSKRA'I HOOK Filed March 19, 1929 gwuentoz p. JZHa Z'korn M mes- I 13772512 4;

A UNITED" STATES PATENT .OFFI CE;

i V DEF iI JA- THATI-IJOTRN, on I WIN, NEBRASKA. i i

v I l d MUsKnAr-HooK v i Application filed March 19 192a. Serial No. 348,236.

This invention relates to trappers imple- ,less,sufliciently sharp to enable their convenments and more particularly to an instruient use in tearing-open'the wall of a musk-f ment used by muskrat trappers. v j rat-house or animal den to enable a trap to Anim'portant object of the invention is to be placed therein. v v

5 combine in a'single' structure van implement The hooks may, of course, likewise be en- 55 which will serve for digging or; prying traps gaged in the jaws of an open trap or in the from ice or frozen ground, may serve asa jaws when-closed uponnthe leg of an animal, Wrecking tool in breaking openings in the provided the body ofthe animal cannot be walls of muskrathouses, and which will act conveniently engaged. The spade'pointmay. as a trap oranima'l hook enabling a trapped be used'for digging ice or frozen dirt from 9 animal to be withdrawn from a hole orcavi about an embedded trap and in this use, the

t'y without danger to the trapperand without outer or concaved faces of the tines provide damage to theanimal. a convenientjhand seat or grip.

These and other objects I attain by the A tool of this character may be convenconstruction shown in I the accompanying iently employed by emploving a single length 6.5

drawing whereinfor the purpose of illustraof material which is bent centrally to-form tion I have showna preferredembodiment parallel runs 15, producing the handle porof my invention and wherein';*" I tion. The bight ofthe bendis flattened and Figure l is a front elevation of a'muskrat sharpened to produce the spade point lland hook constructed in accordancejwith-my inadjacent the ends, the parallel runs are first vention; v 1 twisted as at 16, and then spread and bent to Figure 2is a sideelevationthereof; produce the tines l3. 5 Referring now;morelparticularly tothe a This structuremayfhowever, be produced drawing, the} numeral 10 generally 'desigin other mannersand I do not wish to be nates a handle formed atone end with a spade understood as limiting myself to the specific H r or chisel point 11, and at itsoppo'site end with structure illustrated except as hereinafter a fork generally designated at 12, the tines claimed. 7 a,

18 of this fork being bentso that they extend j I claimi; f V a i '5 in a general plane substantially'perpendicur' A trappers implement, comprising a ham 3larto the handlean'dare slightly arcuately dle, portion provided at one end with a curvedwith the concaved faces thereof dis-. spade'or chisel point andhavingv at it g-u posed toward thespa'deend of the handle; site end arcuately curved tines adapted to re The Points 14 h t relati vely ceive therebetween the body of an animal, 1 r blunt and the tines themselves [are Spaced said tines being bluntly pointed and being i f apart a distance suchthatf they may con-v,substantiallyperpendicularlydisposed'to the veniently receive therebetween the bodies'of handle, said tool comprising a single'length small animals, but are sufliciently-closely re: of material centrally bent to produceparallelv I lated that they: will not permit pr je t on runs, the bight being flattened and sharpened l therethr ough of the hips or shoulders of the; to produce the spade point, the parallel runs. 5 a f' d I 40 animal. In other words, the fork tinesare beingtwi t d.; d th d d tb nti co i V ployed towithdraw theanimal throug'han adapted to receive :there'between the rela d fghgti I l V v V tively restricted belly ortionof the animal; I ln; t tim h f l 'he t ffix-i v It will'be obvious thatthis fork engaged signature. I f v If f p about the body of the animal may beem- 1 w 1 DENNIE A. HATHORN; '9 7 opening as the animalimay be kept inengageme'nt with one wall ;of the openingto prevent its escape from the tines. The blunt; j

ends of thetines, whilenot sufficiently sharp i v to injure the furof the animal are,"neverthel 9 

